There are three houses. One is red, one is blue, and one is white.
If the red house is to the
left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right to the house in the middle, where
is the white house?
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In Washington, D.C.!
You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match on you. Which do you light first,
the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire?
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You light the match first!
Who is bigger: Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby?
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The baby, because he is a little bigger.
Mike is a butcher. He is 5’10” tall. What does he weigh?
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Meat
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but nine die. How many are left?
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Nine
How far can a rabbit run into the woods?
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Halfway. After that, he is running out of the woods.
In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28
days?
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They all do.
What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __
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S, O, N. The sequence is first letter of the months of the year. September, October, and November
are the next in the sequence.
Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second
Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?
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Jimmy, because Jimmy’s mother had four children!
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
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Mt. Everest. It was still the highest in the world. It just had not been discovered yet!
Which is heavier? A pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?
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Neither. Both weigh a pound!
What is full of holes but can still hold water?
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A sponge
A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son takes
the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to school.
When he returns in the afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the
stairs for the remaining five floors. Why?
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Because he cannot reach the buttons higher than five.
A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
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You do not bury the SURVIVORS!
I do not have any special powers, but I can predict the score of any football game before it
begins. How can I do this?
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Well, the score before any football game is always zero to zero!
You are driving a bus. At the first stop, two women get on. The second stop, three men get
on and one woman gets off. At the third stop, three kids and their mom get on, and a man gets off.
The bus is grey, and it is raining outside. What color is the bus driver’s hair?
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Whatever color your hair is! Remember, you are the bus driver!
Imagine that you are in a boat, in the middle of the sea. Suddenly, you are surrounded by
hungry sharks, just waiting to feed on you. How can you put an end to this?
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Stop imagining!
Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
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Fire
Which travels faster? Hot or Cold?
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Hot is faster, because you can catch a cold.
When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you do
not have me.
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A secret
What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
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Your breath!
First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away
the inside. What did I eat?
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Corn on the cob
